Волшебный корабль (L)

The same world far from the war-torn Six Duchies of the north, where war and pirate robbery had a bad effect on that part of the economy that had nothing to do with the sea. The warm South Seas are a strange world where living ships float in the seas and giant sentient snakes are found. Here is the confrontation between the "new merchants" (Kalsidians) and the "old merchants of the Fortunate"; struggle for the possession of ships; family quarrels and intrigues related to inheritance; fights with island pirates. The main events take place in the city of Udachny around the Vestrit family and around Marietta, the ship of the pirate captain Kennit. Lucky's special feature is the living ships that some of the older merchant families have. The Living Ship is made from Divowood, and possessed exceptional strength, resistance to external influences, and the ability to absorb human emotions and characters. In order for the ship to come to life, it is necessary that representatives of three generations of the same family die on board. After that, the ship becomes attached to the family with special bonds. On board the ship must be a person who belongs to the family by blood. With good relations between the ship and the crew, the ship strives to help people in everything - it catches a fair wind, indicates the fairway, so it is extremely difficult to capture a living ship. The Prankster was a living ship. She was laid sixty-three years ago, and the keel of the future ship was hewn from a single divotree. As well as the plating of the sides, and the nasal figure - all from the same trunk. Great-grandmother Vestrit paid for everything. To do this, she mortgaged the family property, and Altia's father, Efron, still paid off the mortgages. For thirty-five years she had led the Prankster on the seas, and even when she was already over seventy. And then one hot sunny day she simply sat down on the tank, said: “Well, boys, that's enough, perhaps” - and ... died. After her, grandfather sailed on the ship. He had died fourteen years ago, and also on the deck of the Mischief. He was sixty-two, while Altia was only four. For the ship, his death meant another step towards awakening. Altia knew that the awakening of the "Naughty" was supposed to take place after the death of her father... Meanwhile, the pirate captain Kennit, having the prediction of the Others, half-humans, half-fish, receives vague confirmation of his vain hopes to take possession of a living ship and become the king of pirates. He will become the very first ruler of the Pirate Islands. Will become! But he won't be the only one to call himself master of the sea...